To:L. D. TROTSKY

ComradeTrotsky, copies toZinoviev, Bukharin, Radek,StalinandKamenev

Dictated:Dictated by phone at 11.00 a.m. on November 25, 1922Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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1.AboutBordiga, I very strongly advise the adoption
of your proposal that we send a letter from our C.C. to the
Italian delegates and insistently recommend that they adopt
the tactics you have outlined, otherwise the actions of the
latter will be highly harmful for the Italian Communists
in everything they subsequently
do.[1]

2.Ihave read your theses concerning NEP and on the
whole find them very good, and some formulations extremely
felicitous, but a small part of the points seemed to
me to be dubious. I would advise their publication in the
newspapers for the time being, and then re-issue in a
pamphlet without fail. With some comments, they will be
especially appropriate for informing the foreign public
about our New Economic Policy.

[1]TheFourth Congress of the Comintern discussed the merger of
the Communist and Socialist Parties of Italy. The leadership
of the Italian Communist Party, at the time in the hands of the
sectarian Bordiga group, came out against the merger.

TheR.C.P.(B.) Central Committee sent the Italian
Communist Party delegation a letter advising it not to vote against the
merger resolution which was worked out by a commission. The
I.C.P. delegation accepted the advice.

Thecongress adopted a unanimous decision on the merger and
set up a special organising committee to put it through. See this
volume, Document 803.